(Miluno)
I was a stopper.
But I was a stopper with dreams, and I didn't want to be nothing more than a stopper.
There had to be something else I could do besides plugging the torrent of Black Mud.
Perhaps it was coincidence, or perhaps it was fate. Precisely because my consciousness had fallen into chaos, I had managed to break through the boundary between the virtual and the real and hear those distant voices.
They were the consciousnesses of celestial bodies.
Beings on the same level as the Earth Crystal-the ones who had sent fragments of themselves here to resist the invasion from the Other Side.
This fake Miluno was eroding the New World with darkness, spreading despair and panic.
In that case, our side needed hope to match.
The first meteor streaked across the empty night sky, heralding a magical girl's recovery of her former power. People once again had a means to fight the darkness.
Then came a meteor shower visible across the entire world...
And the stars lighting up one after another in the night sky.
"So pretty... Are these reinforcements?"
At Ceruno's murmur, I explained:
"They can't help or intervene directly, but they can grant power to people who want to resist and have a positive spirit... Just like before. Those radiant celestial bodies have never left us."
Magical girls who had regained their powers, and those receiving them for the first time, understood their mission and the convictions they needed to uphold. They stepped forward to fight the witches.
The counterattack was about to begin.
That said...
The magical girls were still slightly weaker than the witches. The witches pouring out of New York were spreading like a zombie horde, and the side of darkness held the advantage in both numbers and strength.
"Don't